1. The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
   "The apple tree was laden with ripe fruit"
    
2. The consequence of some effort or action
   "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"
    
3. An amount of a product
   "The orchard produced a good fruit this year";
   - yield
    
4. [N. Amer, offensive] A homosexual man
   "before he came out he'd never been called a fruit";
   - gay man, gay, fagot [N. Amer, informal], faggot [informal], fag [informal], fairy [informal], pansy [informal], queen [informal], poof [informal], pouf [informal]

1. Bear fruit
   "the trees fruited early this year"
    
2. Cause to bear fruit
   "The warm weather fruited the trees early"

Derived forms: fruited, fruits, fruiting

Type of: adult male, aftermath, bear, bozo [N. Amer, informal], cat [N. Amer, informal], cause, chappie [Brit, informal], consequence, gay, geezer [Brit, informal], get, guy [informal], have, hombre [N. Amer, informal], homophile [archaic], homosexual, induce, make, man, product, production, reproductive structure, sod [informal], stimulate, turn out

Encyclopedia: Fruit, tree